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Despatch, Nr. 280 of the 9th Instant, will apprize Your Grace of the views entertained by myself and the Executive Council on that Subject, and of our opinion that the most effectual mode of putting it down would be "found in farming the monopoly of gaming there us at Macao.
As however those views also had been already placed before Your Grace in my Despatch N° 187 of the 14th of January last, received previous to Your Grace's decision, the discussion closed and shall regard the decision endeavor to give effect to Your Grace's instructions when the revised Ordinance shall have passed the Council.
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unless the sums paid for licenses be of sufficient amount to ensure the cooperation of the Chinese with the Police in maintaining order and a strict observance of all Regulations affecting licensed houses.
Therefore Lord Carnarvon's wish to make the issue and withdrawal of licenses entirely a matter of Police and not of revenue would seem, ex necessitate rei, impracticable, because it is essential to the Police part of the experiment that the Chinese should invest large sums in the licenses, and they cannot do so without increasing the Revenue.
As I notice that Your Grace infers from a report of Mr. Cecil Smith transmitted in my Despatch No. 206 of the 12th February last, that I may find it unnecessary to
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continue the discussion on the matter.
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